Decentral Voting Systems

“Stille Post” System

A votechain is passed along from person to person. The key property is that a votechain can be evaluated as a whole without revealing information about single votes, preserving voter privacy while maintaining verifiable results.

This concept draws from cryptographic techniques like homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs to enable:

Vote privacy: Individual votes remain secret
Result integrity: The aggregate result is verifiable
Chain of custody: The vote passes through the network in a traceable but private manner

Relation to Other Concepts

Voting mechanisms are fundamental procedures within Governance Engines
They enable E-Democracy at scale
Value Networks extend basic voting with weighted and destructive voting models